Update from November 16, 2020
On November 7, 2020, the Provincial Health Officer (PHO) issued a new order for all individuals, places of work and businesses within the Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health regions to significantly reduce social interactions (except for the Central Coast...
Board Chair and Registrar Letter for the Launch of the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Survey
Earlier this year, the CDBC Board of Directors agreed that we need to do more to ensure our organization is welcoming and better reflects the diversity of the dietitians we regulate and the BC public we serve. Recent events of Indigenous-specific abuse and...
You Asked About… Balancing your individual scope of practice with the requests of your clients.
On occasion, it is possible that a patient or client may ask you to provide care or to make recommendations that are not clearly part of dietetic scope. This may come about when your dietetic scope (and individual scope), the CDBC Code of Ethics, and the best interest...
You Asked About… returning to in-person work versus maintaining virtual practice amid phases 2 and 3 of BC’s Restart Plan
Please note, this post is an update to the COVID-19 blog post posted on May 27, 2020. Phase 2 COVID-19 measures were in place from May 19 to June 23. On June 24, the Provincial Health Officer declared Phase 2 over and implemented Phase 3. This has allowed some...